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There's been a lot of TV pundit talk about the "Gender Divide". Even more striking is the "Rationality Divide" between Trump-MAGA World and the rest of the world. Most of the world's leaders are intelligent and rational and make decisions based on reality and reason. Donald is incapable of evaluating reality. Donald is, literally, an unreasonable human.

So, when he threatens another world leader using irrational arguments and make-believe "facts" they will push back. The Stupids are about to be handed the keys to the government. Every leader in the world is well aware of this.

They see the Idiocracy coming: A Russian spy appointed to spy on Russians. An astrologer snake oil salesman to manage Medicare. A reality denier to manage scientists. A minor platoon leader sex addict to manage the strongest military in the world, who is so stupid he doesn't believe in bacteria. A nazi lover to advise on national security. A nutcase who thinks arresting and imprisoning productive, working families is smart. It's a flood of idiocy!

We and the world's leaders are watching the stupidity unfold.

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Mexico apparently has a real president.

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According to Rolling Stone today, The Madman now wants to invade Mexico. A "splendid little war", right? I can't stand another second of this and he hasn't even taken office yet.

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Just read about it. I live among Trump voters. They voted to secure the border and get the prices down. This crazy ass bullshit is going to piss them off totally. These people are already angry and they are all armed. That’s the other thing the President of Mexico said. Americans were getting drugs from their cartels BUT their cartels were getting their guns from Americans. So maybe both countries will benefit from sealing the border.

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A strong female leader confronting trump. . . LOVE IT!

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This reality-shifting makes me absolutely crazy! How the millions of voters bought into his bullshit is beyond me.

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It doesn't surprise me. They believe everything their fearless leader tells them. Maybe they'll all drink the kool-aid.

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I'm not sure that he’s told them anything other than “I'm putting tariffs on goods from XYZ”. XYZ reacts. The magaverse spreads its interpretation of the “facts” and concludes that he is tough and won the battle. I'm not sure that I have seen a response to Mexico yet from anyone o. The “team”.

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Good to know our neighbor, Mexico, is not afraid of Trump and his bullying tactics!! I hope other democratic countries take her lead!

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I'm reminded of some message-crafting learning I did years ago: only have one message, don't add tertiary things. If the message the President of Mexico wanted to send is about trade and tariffs, that needs to be the message. Anything not on that topic creates opportunity for your main thrust to be lost. Did the right-wing folks go out of their way to find an alternate message? Of course, that's their thing. And, obviously, the President of Mexico can say whatever she wants to however she wants to and I love her firm stand to Trump. I am just posing that messaging needs to be tight on a single fail-point at a time: produce lots of messages, but each needs to be clear on one target. In this case, IMHO, its ~'we (Mexico) respond to Trump Tariffs with tariffs of our own'~.

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I agree with this single point focus perspective. If he follows through, however, I think price increases and possible product embargo (like China did to our farm products in 2018 as a result of T_____p tariff war) will be like a single pointed arrow, from a crossbow.

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It doesn't surprise me that MAGA once again gets it wrong. They get the spin from Fox News or Newsmax or whatever right-wing media they listen to. Obviously, they haven't read the full message from Mexico's president. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't understand it. Most of them won't be able to read something that long.

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Thanks for these posts team MEIDAS!!

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Thank you, Ben, as always for this. May I please suggest that you also feature Biden's accomplishments in your daily videos. One mistake I think we (Democrats, Progressives, Blue Voters) made was that we forgot to tout Biden's many, very many triumphs. As Trump tries to take over the conversation, let's drown him out with all Biden and Biden-Harris' accomplishments. We could list one a day and still be going a year from today. We cannot let Trump take credit for Biden's brilliance. Thank you.

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Trump voters are in for a lot of unpleasant surprises.

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I am glad to see that many democratic leaders are pushing back on Traitor Trump. It's a shame that some like Turkey are not calling trump out. Again, it is going to be up to us to save our Democracy. Just keep on fighting and spreading the truth to EVERYONE IN THE WORLD! Knowledge IS Truth to POWER.

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Yay! You go girl!

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Republican maga morons lie about what is written in front of their stupid faces. Maybe they simply cannot read, comprehend, or understand the written word...

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As well she should!! It’s so ridiculous, his stupid bibles were manufactured in China! He’s just clueless and id never wanna come here, if I didn’t have kids and grandkids I’d move far far away!

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Both Canada and Mexico have talked about the amount of guns going into their countries from us. I have to wonder if the orange buffoon even considered the blow back regarding the illegal gun trade. Further 80% of the fentanyl is brought in by US citizens I have heard. Every time he wants to scare his minions, he brings up huge caravans of migrants that are in his imagination or alternate reality but not in our reality!

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